Asian sales and production firm Distribution Workshop is using the Busan International Film Festival’s labelet to re-begin driven “Sons of the Neon Night,” a film it first became speedyened to in 2015. Only this time the Juno Mak-straightforwarded project is now in post-production, has a salertar cast and has enbiged to become the highest-budget movie ever hatched in Hong Kong.
“Sons of the Neon Night” is pitched as a high-octane yet highly-stylized, police-crime-action-thriller set in a deproduceed and reimagined Hong Kong. It boasts an A-enumerate cast headed by Takeshi Kaneshiro (“Hoemploy of Flying Daggers”), Tony Leung Ka-fai (“Celderly War”), Sean Lau Ching-wan (“Life Without Principle”), Louis Koo (“Warriors of Future”) and Ritchie Jen (“Twiairy of the Warriors: Walled In”).
It also features a score produced by the tardy Sakamoto Ryuichi (“The Last Emperor”).
With a production budget of over $50 million, the movie is currently in post-production and aimed for free no tardyr than the first half of 2025.
Mak is a directing contransient artist and singer based in Hong Kong. He accomplishd recognition as a filmproducer too, with his 2013 debut ‘Rigor Mortis,” which premiered at the Vekind film festival. “Sons of the Neon Night” was proclaimd soon thereafter, but did not go forward.
The story commences with a gigantic explosion and Michael-Mann-style firearm shooting of an unpwithdrawnted scale in a snow-struck Caemployway Bay, a downtown dicut offe on Hong Kong Island. Upon spendigation, it was a diversion that was a prelude to a series of untamed actions reckond by the heir to a global pharmaceutical conglomerate (portrayed by Kaneshiro), which finishs up with his own overweighther, the set uper of the family conglomerate and possible drug baron, finished in hospital. A omition to proclaim a war on substances is proclaimd but has the result of throtriumphg the world – and the underworld – into disorder.
Distribution Workshop is also recurrenting two Taiwan romance drama films: “Penguin Girl,” straightforwarded by emerging straightforwardor Yang Yuyu, and “Unforeseeed Courage,” eased by the real story of straightforwardor Shawn Yu and starring acclaimed singer-actress René Liu and Hsueh Shih-Ling, a best helping actor award triumphner at Busan’s Asia Contents Awards. For “Unforeseeed Courage,” Distribution Workshop will regulate sales in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan only.
